Why do so many of the forum members have a totally wrong idea about the MQ bridge pickup?! They're not calibrated without a reason. If you want balls, cut and clarity (without compression) I'd say just go for it. It's trebly, close to the RY bridge pickup + it has a lovely, raw and strong bass response you won't get out of any humbucker. VERY sensitive to pick attack, the harder you hit, the 'rockier' the sound becomes. I love the fact that they stay clean at high volumes without unwanted drive/compression. It's such an underrated pickup to my opinion.
What do you mean? I've never seen anyone contradict that it has those qualities. Some people just prefer the sound of a humbucker over a P-90 in the bridge position, I don't think it has to do with having the "wrong idea" of what the MQ bridge sounds like.
True, but not all P-90's are the same (same story goes for humbuckers). Why not trying the MQ bridge pickup first before having 1 opinion about ALL P-90's?
I've had Mules, Blackdogs and RY's but the MQ's (6,4K/7,0K) are by far my favorite of them all. It really isn''t a huge change, going from those humbuckers to these 'P-90 type MQ's'. Everything is still there, but it's just more alive/more sensitive to pick attack.
